The PC government most emphatically did not allow Alberta to prosper through their actions. They simply rode the wave. I was transplanted to AB with my family from 2004-2008, and during that time we had the boom, Klein's ridiculous cash-back to each Albertan move, and the crash.

If the PCs had any sense, they would have followed Peter Lougheed's vision of reinvestment and saving of profits from the boom times for the lean times. Instead of doing this, the PCs squandered the profits, and lost profits, through corporate incentives, through the good years, and when oil inevitably crashed, Alberta was somehow running a deficit and left crying for equalization payments.

You could iterate this sentiment with any improvement in the spread of information to the people from the Gutenberg press through print media through radio and television. The kicker is that institutional power is extremely effective at co-opting and subsuming new forms of media for its own purposes.

The same is true of capitalism: there is nothing that it will not attempt, usually successfully, to commodify. You can buy a t-shirt with that famous portrait of Ché Guevara at The Gap, you can chase the illegal high of heroin through prescription opioids sold by Glaxosmithkline and Pfizer.

This is why revolutionaries seek to destroy existing structures. It's upsetting and scary to the comfortable and established, but it's the only way to break the chain.

Definitely this. I've even told junkies at downtown Skytrain stations to leave tourists alone because (1) the tourists are usually confused or trying to be polite, and (2) junkies know they're an easier mark and get very insistent. I've seen people with suitcases and maps be followed down from street level to the ticket kiosks at the City Centre Canada Line station.

Honestly not sure what I'm shooting for yet. Most likely not audit/assurance; there's good money to be made, but that's not my speed. Actually considering going into forensic accounting after finishing my CPA.

I just saw it tonight with my girlfriend. I think this movie has the capacity to show white moviegoers that a movie about, starring, and written/directed by black people doesn't have to be a movie only for black people. This movie works as a Afro-futurist piece, as a superhero movie, as an empowering film for young black people, and as just a damn good movie. I loved it.

Except the entirety of this talking point is hedged in terms of "in the indictment". It's only a good talking point insofar as they claim innocence for this indictment and within its scope. This isn't the end of the investigation.